Family day care centers in apartment complexes, which are popular in Korea, have merits as day care centers for young children due to their homey environments, closeness to children’s homes, and available outdoor playgrounds utilizing open space in ...
Family day care centers in apartment complexes, which are popular in Korea, have merits as day care centers for young children due to their homey environments, closeness to children’s homes, and available outdoor playgrounds utilizing open space in the complexes. Thus, there is a great potential to develop a design guideline for family day care in apartments which are in demand now. The purpose of this study is to provide basic information for developing a design guideline for family day care centers. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the important issues that influence the development of design family day care center. These issues are environment behavior. Murtha & Lee’s User Benefit Criteria, and Pattern theory.
As a result, this study provides basic data for developing a design guideline for family day care and as a base for the next study.